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In his Troubleshooter books and television series, Britain's best-known businessman has shown ailing companies how to fight for success. In this superb sequel, Sir John re-examines his own career and sets out urgent suggestions for national reform.
Revisiting his childhood home in India - where his father was once tutor to a Maharaja - Sir John finds manufacturers still struggling with the legacy of colonialism as they try to seize the opportunities of a newly liberalized economy Back in Britain, he helps a bulldozer demolish his hated prep school, compares a rundown comprehensive with a privileged public school, and deplores our failure
to train teachers who can stimulate our children to high achievement. He discusses the dilemmas of a slimmed-down Navy with captains, commodores and the First Sea Lord. And he asks whether Government, the Treasury and the City are really giving industry the support it needs if Britain is to pay her way in the world and fulfil her true potential. Lively, amusing and fundamentally optimistic, John Harvey-Jones's book is also utterly frank, both in pointing to problems and in prescribing the remedies..
ISBN:9780140261660 
